Steps to clean up your Mac’s desktop

If you are now using a Mac, there are chances that you frequently put a lot of apps and files you use the most on your desktop. Over the years, your desktop becomes a mess. So, to keep your desktop tidy, the best shot is cleaning up your Mac’s desktop regularly.

In this tutorial, we will run you through the steps to clean up your Mac’s desktop

Steps to organize your desktop items into folders on your Mac

Grouping all the current items into folders serves as one of the quickest way to clean up your Mac’s desktop. Here is how you do it:

Step one: All you have to do now is to right-click any blank space on your desktop and select New Folder from the drop-down menu or use the keyboard shortcut Command-Shift-N

Step two: Once you are done, click on the new folder that just appeared on your desktop and enter a name for the folder

Step three: When it is done, you now can drag any items on the desktop into that folder.

Steps to align and sort your desktop items on your Mac

If you find the above-mentioned tip annoying, you can ask your Mac to automatically sort your files into a tidy grid by specific types of files. Here is how you do it:

Step one: First and foremost, you need to right-click any blank space on your desktop and select Clean Up By from the drop-down menu